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The Memory Painter

7/6/2016

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About The Memory Painter

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Picador (July 5, 2016)
What if there was a drug that could help you remember past lives?
What if the lives you remembered could lead you to your one true love?
What if you learned that, for thousands of years, a deadly enemy had conspired to keep the two of you apart?
Bryan Pierce is an internationally famous artist, whose paintings have dazzled the world. But there's a secret to Bryan's success: Every canvas is inspired by an unusually vivid dream. Bryan believes these dreams are really recollections?possibly even flashback from another life?and he has always hoped that his art will lead him to an answer. And when he meets Linz Jacobs, a neurogenticist who recognizes a recurring childhood nightmare in one Bryan's paintings, he is convinced she holds the key.
Their meeting triggers Bryan's most powerful dream yet?visions of a team of scientists who, on the verge of discovering a cure for Alzheimer's, died in a lab explosion decades ago. As his visions intensify, Bryan and Linz start to discern a pattern. But a deadly enemy watches their every move, and he will stop at nothing to ensure that the past stays buried.Praise
“... hang on for a wild and entertaining ride around the world and through the centuries back to ancient Egypt.” Library Journal (starred review)
“Gwendolyn Womack's tale dazzles.” US Weekly (Standout Spring Novels)
“A sweeping, mesmerizing feat of absolute magic...” ?M. J. Rose, New York Times bestselling author of The Witch of Painted Sorrows
“The guy-meets-girl story as you've never heard it before...A mind-explosion of a journey ensues that involves time travel, mystery, love, and a whole lot of plot twists.” Refinery29
“A page turner that will keep readers up late into the night. Readers who love adventure, romance and fantasy will love this book.” The Vancouver Sun
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Review: 
Lovers, friends, enemies- souls that are continuously playing out their roles in each successive life until they remember their purpose.  In the present, Bryan Pierce wakes up from an extraordinary dream and feels the need to paint everything that occurred.  He can recall everything about the life of the person he has dreamt about, including the ability to speak their language and perform any special skills that they had.   Bryan isn’t just recalling a dream, he is remembering an entire past life, all of the memories have come flooding back at once.  Most of all, he remembers the woman from his dream and when he finally meets her in his current life as Linz Jacobs after she recognizes one of his paintings from her dream, he sets in motion a chain of events thousands of years in the making.

The Memory Painter is incredibly unique with vivid writing that pulled me into the book much like people were pulled into Bryan’s paintings.  I love the idea of past lives and The Memory Painter used the concept in a creative, magical and intense way.  First of all, the past lives that Bryan and eventually Linz remember took me back in time to a wide range of periods and different historical figures.  A mystery is teased out with each progressive life as Bryan and Linz are able to piece together their memories, an antagonist appears.  One soul has been tearing them apart and killing them off in every lifetime, this aspect had me completely engaged.  I thought I had everything figured out as to who the soul was and why they were acting how they were; however with a roller-coaster of twists and turns and finally remembering their first lives in Egypt, everything is turned around.  I was continuously pulled into the story as each past life was revealed and Bryan and Linz currently tried to figure out their entwined pasts.  Overall, this story is incredibly engaging and inventive, a perfect story to sink your teeth into and devour in one sitting.
 
This book was received for free in return for an honest review. 


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​About Gwendolyn Womack
Gwendolyn Womack began writing plays in college and majored in Theatre at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. She received an MFA in Directing Theatre and Film from California Institute of the Arts and currently lives in Los Angeles with her family. The Memory Painter is her first novel.
Find out more about Gwendolyn at her website, connect with her on Facebook and Twitter, and see what she's pinning on Pinterest.

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trish link
7/8/2016 02:02:32 pm

I'm so glad you enjoyed it so much! The past lives thread sounds fascinating!

Thank you for being on this tour!

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